Custom Landscape Brushes

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Howdy,

I’ve been working with UE4’s landscape sculpting tool to make adjustments to a map imported from Blender.

I’ve been trying to add some custom shapes to the pattern and alpha tools as opposed to the standard circle.

I have some brushes I’ve previously used in Photoshop and converted them to 16bit Greyscale PNGs but they don’t seem to follow the brush shape very well. In some case’s a get an error saying something about the image not being two channel? (can’t remember exactly what it said).

Has anyone successfully used custom brushes in UE4?

Is there a /min size for PNG’s being used as brushes?

Could someone share the image specs or an example file I could use to copy settings?

Thanks for your help,

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You just have to make sure that they use black and white colours. Here is an example:

BirdsandButterflies.jpg
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  1. I think you mean the “power of two” message -> make sure that you use texture resolutions like 2048x2048,…
  2. yes, I successfully use custom brushes
  4. upper picture (or just take a look at the noise textures from the starter content)
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Mate, how are you always the first and most helpful reply? :slight_smile:

“Power of two” was the exact issue. Ratio was off slightly.

Cheers , onwards and upwards!

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They don’t have to be b&w- I have some color ones I use and then there is a little selector to choose the channel.